culullus

• culūlus, culillus

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܠܬܳܐ‎ (qulləṯā), deriving from Akkadian 𒄣𒇷𒌋 (qulliu, “a bowl”), older Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒇻 (gullu, “a container”), also Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒆷𒌅 (gullatu, “ewer”). Doublet of gaulus (“a kind of vessel”) and of collathum (“a unit of liquid measure used in Syria”) via Ancient Greek κόλλαθον (kóllathon, “a unit of liquid measure used in Syria”) from the same word (reborrowed as Classical Syriac ܩܘܠܐܬܘܢ /‎ ܩܘܠܬܘܢ‎ (“a unit of liquid measure”)). Also found as Jewish Aramaic קוּלְתָא‎ (qulləṯā), Biblical Hebrew גֻלָּה‎ (gullāh), Ugaritic 𐎂𐎍 (gl), Eblaite 𒄘𒇷𒈝 (GÚ-LI-LUM), Arabic قُلَّة‎ (qulla). Note that because of each locus being transmitted in all variants the exact form of the Latin cannot be known with certainty, but the meter in the Art of Poetry requires the /l/ to be ungeminated, against the Aramaic etymon and manuscripts that give ­­­⟨ll⟩ variants.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈlul.lus/, [kʊˈɫʊl.lʊs]

culullus m (genitive culullī); second declension

1. wine jug, ewer, pitcher, jar, bumper, chalice, goblet, beaker
   • c. 19 BCE, Horace, Ars Poetica 434–436:

     reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis
     et torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent,
     an sit amicitia dignus.

     Kings are said to ply with many bumpers and test with unmixed wine whom to deem worthy of their friendship.

   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes I.31.9–13:

     premant Calena falce quibus dedit
     Fortuna vitem, dives ut aureis
     mercator exsiccet culullis
     vina Syra reparata merce

     Those to whom Fortuna has given it shall trim the vine with the Calenian pruning-knife so that the rich trader may drain from golden jugs the wine for which he barters Syrian wares

   • ?, Pseudo-Acro, Commentarii in Q. Horatium Flaccum, in Carmen I.31.11:

     Culillis. Poculis; proprie autem culilli calices dicuntur fictiles, quibus pontifices virgines Vestales utebantur. Hic autem pro urceolis et conchis posuit.

     Bumpers. Beakers; in proper usage bumpers are earthen chalices which the Vestal virgin priests use. Here it is posited for mugs or goblets.

Second declension.

• culullus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “qwlh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qwltwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “qulliu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), volume 13, Q, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1982, pages 297–298
• “gullatu, gullu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD), volume 5, G, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956, page 129
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 170–171
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 15–16
• Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 86
• Olmo Lete, Gregorio del; Sanmartín, Joaquín; Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015), “gl (II)”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 297